The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1887-08-19
TIE NEW SOUTH
A coiored Graduate Of a Maine Col
lege Elected from a Car.
ABERDEEN. Mississinni. Ang 10

ABERDEEN, Mississippi, Aug. 10, 1887.
TO the Editor of the Press:
send you the following facts which NAV
prove of interest to you, and to our people of
Maine generally.
left New York the Both of July, ria
Cromwell Steamship Line, steamer Knicker-
booker, Captain Frank Kemble, for New Or
leans. Louisiana, reaching there the 9th of
August, after pleasant voyage of eight
days. Being very much in need of shave.
went into the city as soon as the steamer
landed and applied at the first barber shop
reached for shave, but was refused on the
ground that This shop is for Unite men;
we don't shave niggers here" Iexpatiated
at some length on their accursed customs.
race prejudices, and social ostracism, re-
marking that was surprised to find such a
state of affairs, that had just arrived on the
steamer from New York, was an adopted
son Of New England, of the State of Maine.
and had been reading with some interest
Grady's (of the Atlanta Constitution "New
South" and had hoped to find different
state of things. And further, said L, | find
that Grady did not tell the truth in the glow
ing and graphic pen pictures he drew of his
New South, but that the South is the old
South still, with all her customs clinical
and sectional hostilities. applied to anoth-
er, and to another shop with equal i'll sue
cess. In fact found that every respectable
barber shop, restaurant, hotel, soda and
sehiskey saloon, even, was closed to the ne
gro. There are the same determinations ON
their railroads.
spent part of my Sabbath (the 7th inst.)
in Mobile, Alabama, dirtier place it would
be hard to find anywhere, and while there
went into a by no means prepossessing look
ing restaurant, miserable place in fact.
and asked If could get something TO eat.
Yes" was the prompt reply, Sin the kitch
en!' In the where? interposed; Sin the
kitchenl" was again retorted thanked nv
informant. and told him that it was not nv
custom to take my meals in kitchen when
dining room was just as convenient swell.
that's the only place where we feed niqqers
round here, or they don't get anything at all |:
SO reckon you'd better get back to the coun-
Try where you came from pretty quick"
bowed myself out as politely as could.
~, Temporal! O, mores!" which being in
terpreted is, 0 Southern customs and preiu-
dces diabolcal!
Inexperienced no difficulty in sitting in n
frst-class car until l reached Artesia. in
Mississippi Sunday evening, August y, there
was forcibly elected into smoking car. a
dirty, horrid, Tuning entrance of the nit Stve-
gian, by trio of cut-throat, dare devil. ,ee
must-keep -the-nSggerS-ander white rufiGnst
U, my God! Would that my head were wa
ters, and mine eyes fountain of tears that
might weep day and night for the accursed
customs ana dlabolical outrages that are per
petrated by the South upon the harmless and
lho1ensive negro, more pacific and passive
creature than whom it would be difficult to
md! 1t makes ones blood boil to witness
THESE outrages, and tenfold more so to be the
OBJECT OF them, by these mediterranean
creation, heathenish, illiterate Souther 6ends
VINO are more akin to demons of hell than
any other class under heaveni | have been
made TO weep bitter, bitter tears as / look
around upon this wretched state of tbingsl
No. there is no 'New South" She is the
same ugly, deformed, rabid, dangerous beast
she always was. The negro is still the SER
vile thing of necessity, with no claim polifi-
cal, social, moral, or any other Kind hinder
heduen upon his fairer skinned. naughty i'm
perlous brother. He is simply tolerated be-
cause ne must needs do the drudgery of his
lazy, shiftless, kins. fellow.
But a brighter dawning awaits this mid
night OF darkness, and it must come ere long.
for God still reigns. Oe'
Very truly yours,
ADAM s. GREEN.